Editing Character coin

{{rewrite-expand|Include more detail on each individual coin's location}}
[[File:YSDS_BabyCoin.JPG|thumb|The Baby Mario Coin artwork as it appears in ''Yoshi's Island DS'']]
[[File:YIDS-Character Coin Screenshot.png|thumb|left|A Baby Mario Coin in the level [[Six-Face Sal's Fort]] in ''Yoshi's Island DS'']]
'''Character coins''',<ref>{{cite|title=''Yoshi's Island DS'' instruction booklet|page=13|date=2006|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref> also called '''baby coins''',<ref>{{cite|author=Williams, Drew|date=November 6, 2006|title=''Yoshi's Island DS'' Player's Guide|page=6|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|isbn=1-59812-016-6}}</ref> are [[coin]]s that the [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]s can collect in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''. A character coin can be collected by a Yoshi only if the baby on the Yoshi's back is the baby seen on the coin. Collecting all eight character coins in a [[world]] (or all seven in the case of [[World 5 (Yoshi's Island DS)|World 5]]) unlocks a [[minigame]] in the game's [[Hard Mode]]. The 39 character coins in the game are evenly distributed as '''[[Baby Mario]] Coins''',<ref name=NP>{{cite|author=Williams, Drew|date=November 6, 2006|title=''Yoshi's Island DS'' Player's Guide|page=12|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|isbn=1-59812-016-6}}</ref> '''[[Baby Peach]] Coins''',<ref name=NP/> and '''[[Baby DK]] Coins'''.<ref name=NP/>

Character coins appear in the following [[level]]s:
{{columns|count=3|
;Baby Mario Coins
*[[Ba-dum BUM!|1-1]]
*[[Castle of the Big Burt Bros.|1-4]]
*[[Glide Guys Take to the Skies|1-6]]
*[[Boing! (level)|2-5]]
*[[Donuts and Eggs|2-6]]
*[[Big Bungee Piranha's Lair|2-8]]
*[[Island of Peril|3-3]]
*[[Tap-Tap's Sunken Cave|3-7]]
*[[Six-Face Sal's Fort|4-4]]
*[[Teeth-Chattering Chill Zone|4-7]]
*[[Castle of Big Guy the Stilted|4-8]]
*[[Rompin', Stompin' Chomps|5-1]]
*[[Find the Number Ball!|5-5]]
;Baby Peach Coins
*[[Hit the M Blocks!|1-2]]
*[[Mario's Fleet Feet|1-3]]
*[[Catch the Breeze|1-5]]
*[[Gilbert the Gooey's Castle|1-8]]
*[[Baby DK, the Jungle King!|2-1]]
*[[Windblown Wilderness|2-3]]
*[[Yoshi on Stilts|2-7]]
*[[The Goonie Coast Isn't Clear!|3-2]]
*[[Use the Magnet to Get Rich Quick!|3-6]]
*[[Rock 'n' Fall|4-1]]
*[[Friend or Foe?|4-5]]
*[[Spear Guys' Village Found!|5-3]]
*[[The Fort of Moltz the Very Goonie|5-4]]
;Baby DK Coins
*[[Baby Mario and Baby Peach: Dynamic Duo|1-7]]
*[[Underground Mysteries|2-2]]
*[[Hector the Reflector's Haunted House|2-4]]
*[[Up the Creek|3-1]]
*[[Bessie Bass's Battleship|3-4]]
*[[Heeeeeeere's Wario!|3-5]]
*[[Castle of Priscilla the Peckish|3-8]]
*[[High-Speed Cart Race|4-2]]
*[[In the Clouds|4-3]]
*[[Slip Slidin' Away (Yoshi's Island DS)|4-6]]
*[[Goonie Heights|5-2]]
*[[Find the Number Ball!|5-6]]
*[[Superhard Acrobatics!|5-7]]
}}

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=キャラクターコイン
|JapR=Kyarakutā Koin
|JapM=Character Coin
|Dan=Personmønt
|DanM=Person coin
|Fin=Hahmokolikko
|FinM=Character coin
|Swe=Figurmynt
|SweM=Character coin
|Ita=Moneta personaggio<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'' European manual|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2006|page=64|language=it}}</ref>
|ItaM=Character coin
}}

==Trivia==
*The game's coding contains character coins for [[Baby Wario]] and [[Baby Bowser]], but they are [[List of Yoshi's Island DS pre-release and unused content|unused in the final version]] of the game.

==References==
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{{Coins}}
{{YIDS}}
[[Category:Coins]]
[[Category:Collectibles]]
[[Category:Yoshi's Island DS items]]
[[de:Charaktermünze]]